3

To joy in others’ joy had been her lot,

And now that that was gone she wept to see

How her transcendent beauty overshot

The common aim of all felicity.

For love she sigh’d; and had some peasant rude

For true love’s sake in simple passion woo’d,

Then Psyche had not scorn’d his wife to be.

4

For what is Beauty, if it doth not fire